Andreas Kretzschmer

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Franz Johann Karl Andreas Kretzschmer (born November 1, 1775 in Stettin , † March 5, 1839 in Anklam ) was a German lawyer, secret war councilor, composer, musicologist and folk song researcher. His main folklore work, the collection of folk songs from 1838/40, he published under the name A. Kretzschmer ; in a modern reprint from 1969 this form of name is wrongly resolved to August Kretzschmer .

Life

Andreas Kretzschmer showed a great affinity for music from an early age. Nevertheless, at the request of his father, a government councilor, he studied law in Berlin and then became a justice commissioner in his home town of Szczecin. When the city fell into French hands for a few years during the coalition wars, Kretzschmer made a name for himself through his loyalty to Prussia and was rewarded with the Iron Cross and the title of a Secret War Council . Later, at the request of the Prussian Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, he was entrusted with "examining and reporting on the remnants of the Middle Ages in the province of Brandenburg and especially in the spiritual institutions that still exist or have been closed". In Berlin he frequented Friedrich August Wolf , Carl Maria von Weber and Friedrich Zelter . He translated texts by Lord Byron and published several self-composed songs. In 1825 he resigned from his position as a councilor and worked as a judicial officer, first in Halberstadt , then in Anklam . In 1835 he retired after a stroke and from then on devoted himself exclusively to literary and musical work and folk song research. He had the plan to publish a complete collection of German folk songs, but during his lifetime he was only able to publish the first volume of German folk songs with their original tunes with 317 folk songs, which was made between 1838 with the assistance of Hans Ferdinand Maßmann , Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio and others and appeared in eight issues in 1840. After Kretzschmer's death, Zuccalmaglio published a second volume with the assistance of Eduard Baumstark "as a continuation of A. Kretzschmer's work". Both volumes were soon criticized for not having checked the sources sufficiently reliably for their authenticity.

Works

Furthermore musical and historical articles in various newspapers and magazines.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 17th year: 1839, 2nd part. Voigt, Weimar 1841, p. 1129 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ^ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Loverkens. Old Dutch songs (= Horae belgicae: Studio atque opera Hoffmanni Fallerslebensis. Pars Octava). Dieterich, Göttingen 1852, p. VI ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ German folk songs with their original tunes. With the assistance of Professor Dr. Maßmann in Munich, the Lord of Zuccalmaglio in Warsaw, and several other friends of folk poetry edited from handwritten sources and annotated by A. Kretzschmer, Royal Secret War Council and Knight, etc. Vereinsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1838 (digitized version )
  4. ↑ DNB 456422927
  5. ↑ August [recte: Andreas] Kretzschmer at Verlag Olms, accessed on December 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmer, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kretzschmer, Franz Johann Karl Andreas (full name); Kretzschmer, A .; Kretzschmer, August (wrong form of name); Kretschmer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, secret war councilor, composer, musicologist and folk song researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1839
Place of death Anklam